The act of excommunicating or ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual
an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual
Exclusion from the Catholic Church and therefore from all contact with God For a catholic ruler (king or emperor) this meant not only being condemned to hell, but also the loss of all political power
the act of banishing a member of the Church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the Church; cutting a person off from a religious society
Category: Christianity The act of excommunicating or ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual
An ecclesiastical penalty which deprives a person of the right to receive the Sacraments, and, in its extreme form, to associate with other Catholics Excommunication is a "medicinal penalty" intended to force repentance of one guilty of certain serious sins enumerated in Canon Law
Form of censure by which a member of a religious body is excluded from the congregation of believers and from the rites of the church. Excommunication has been used in various religions, notably Christianity, as a punishment for grave offenses such as heresy. In Roman Catholicism an excommunicated person is barred from receiving the sacraments and from burial in consecrated ground. The offender may be absolved by a priest (in some cases, only by a bishop or the pope) and received back into the church after confessing his or her sin and doing penance for it. In Protestant denominations other terms, such as "church discipline," may be attached to essentially the same censure. Although now seldom used, the practice of erem in Judaism was a form of excommunication that excluded people from the community for prescribed times or forbade them from hearing the Torah. The term is also applied to the expulsion of Buddhist monks from the sangha
A form of Black Magick intended to sever the connection between an individual and the Divine Performed by a priest or priestess, this typically follows a ritual curse (malediction) being read, the tolling of a bell for the dead, and the extinguishing of a candle Thus, the connection of "Bell, Book and Candle" with the Dark Path
(Gr Aphorismos) A penalty or censure by which a baptized individual is excluded from the communion and fellowship of the Church, for committing and remaining obstinate in certain mortal sins Church members may excommunicate themselves by absence from the sacraments and by actions contrary to Church law
a censure imposed by church authority which excludes those subjected to it from holy communion and imposes on them other deprivations and disabilities; in the heavier form of this censure, the transgressor was forbidden any intercourse with fellow Christians and deprived of all rights and privileges in the church